mafia
Polish
noun
Definitions
- mafia (crime syndicate)
- mafia (trusted group of associates, as of a political leader)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mafia (spirit of hostility to the law).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
mafia
Gloss
spirit of hostility to the law
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Mafia Italian
- antimafia Italian
- capomafia Italian
- ecomafia Italian
- mafia Italian
- mafiologia Italian
- mafioso Italian
- zoomafia Italian
- maffia Dutch, Flemish
- mafia Spanish, Castilian
- マフィア Japanese
- مَاجَاس Arabic
- mafia Galician
- มาเฟีย Thai
- μαφία Greek (modern)
- mafya Turkish
- 마피아 Korean
- mafia Sicilian
- mafiusu Sicilian